another you

Legend has it that when a person sees another self appearing in front of him, he is not far from death.

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When Xuan Yuan opened his eyes, what he saw was the rows of residential houses standing in front of him, the sky above his head was dim, and the raindrops like needles were continuously dripping on his face.

The originally invisible raindrops immediately became tangible the moment Xuan Yuan raised his head, and the silent world began to make noises. Only then did Xuan Yuan hear how loud the sound of the rain was.

The raindrops fell on his face, which was cold and painful, and he couldn't open his eyes from the beating.

Xuan Yuan's mind was in a mess, and his clothes were sticking to his body with damp, itching.

Walking on the dark and silent asphalt road, stepping on the wet ground, Xuan Yuan's eyes were quickly attracted by the only lighted house in the distance, and he began to walk there unconsciously.

The black leather shoes were filled with water, and there was a sound of water when walking. Xuanyuan looked at the room in a daze, his hands moved faster and faster, and soon he came to the room outside.

Slightly exhaling white air, through the indoor light, Xuan Yuan realized that he came to the door of his own house.

Pushing open the half-covered door, Xuan Yuan walked in with a puddle of rainwater. Every time he took a step, a small puddle of rainwater would be left on the ground, and the rainwater had been extended to the bedroom.

When he came to the bedroom, what Xuanyuan saw was only the messy blanket on the bed, which he had covered before going to bed, and the time displayed on the clock beside the bed was exactly [-]:[-].

Just when Xuan Yuan was so sleepy that he picked up the blanket and was about to cover it up, suddenly there were a few chattering and laughing sounds from the kitchen, the voice Xuan Yuan recognized was the voice of his boyfriend Lin Yinan.

It's been a long time since I heard such a relaxed laugh from my boyfriend, what happened?Xuan Yuan walked towards the kitchen curiously, listening attentively.

The voices in the ear continued to ring.

"It's late, don't you want to sleep? You have to go to work tomorrow." Xuanyuan heard her boyfriend say so softly.

"No, I asked the boss for leave, and I can spend time with you tomorrow...I've made you sad these days, I'm sorry, I won't do it in the future."

The overly ambiguous and intimate words made Xuan Yuan frowned fiercely, and a lot of anger gathered in his heart.

He was so angry that he didn't have the heart to think about the man's extremely familiar voice, all he could think about was the fact that his boyfriend cheated.

'I just went out for a while, and I dared to bring the wild man home! '

Thinking like this, he was very angry, ignored the uneasiness in his heart, and stepped out angrily.

But when he came out, what he saw was Lin Yinan sitting on the cooking table, being hugged by a man who looked exactly like him. The two had an intimate posture and ambiguous movements.

Xuan Yuan stood there in a daze, the anger in his heart was quickly extinguished, a trace of cold air spread from his back, he shivered from the cold, and goose bumps popped out one after another.

'That face...how could...'

Shocked, Xuanyuan saw the man looking at him with gloomy eyes, raised his mouth, and said something maliciously.

"You came back alive."

This sentence frightened Xuan Yuan to open his eyes suddenly, "Huh, Huh." He gasped heavily and sat up from the bed.

Looking around in a daze at the dim bedroom illuminated by the moon, Xuan Yuan relaxed for a while before wiping the sweat off his brow, "Huh, luckily it's a dream."

Looking sideways at his sleeping boyfriend, Xuan Yuan smiled reassuringly. Feeling parched, he turned and got out of bed without hesitation, and walked barefoot on the wooden plank.

After coming to the living room and turning on the light, Xuan Yuan's eyes immediately fixed on the extra wet footprints on the wooden board, and the walking trajectories of those footprints corresponded to those in his dream.

But the strange thing is that it's not raining outside now...

Thinking carefully, Xuan Yuan, who didn't know what he thought of, turned around and ran back to the bedroom immediately in fright, but the place where he was lying was now occupied by another person.

That person has the same appearance and the same voice as him, that is...another self!

The severe fright made Xuan Yuan wake up from his sleep in fright.

"Ah!..." Xuan Yuan raised his head abruptly, spread his head on the chair, and panted heavily.

Is it a dream again?

Afterwards, she wiped her face in fear, but what she wiped off was cold sweat, "It turned out to be a dream within a dream, it scared me to death..."

Yang Li, who was sitting opposite Xuan Yuan, was putting on makeup, and Xuan Yuan's sudden movement scared her lipstick to pieces.

"Xuanyuan, what are you doing? You scared me." Yang Li, who was frightened by Xuanyuan's actions, complained dissatisfiedly, picked up the lipstick that fell on the floor, with a distressed expression.

"Really, this is my new Saint Laurent bean paste color." Yang Li looked angrily at Xuanyuan, who was pale, and threw the lipstick into the trash can helplessly.

Rubbing his face hard, Xuan Yuan continued to sweat coldly on his forehead, "Xiaoli... what time is it now?"

"[-]:[-]? What's the matter?" Yang Li glanced at her watch and replied.

"[-]:[-]..." It's too coincidental...

Thinking of that terrible dream within a dream, the back of Xuan Yuan's neck immediately became wet.

Seeing Xuan Yuan was in a daze, Yang Li was dissatisfied and patted the back of his hand, "Hey, why are you in a daze, you want to go with me to the class reunion at noon, we have agreed."

Xuan Yuan nodded silently while drinking the cold water in the cup.

Looking up at Xuan Yuan, Yang Li continued, "This time, I advise you not to take Lin Yinan there. Although as a classmate, he is also qualified to go, but in order to avoid suspicion, let's forget it."

Thinking of the class reunion last year, Xuan Yuan took a big sip of water irritably. If it wasn't because their relationship was announced at the class reunion last time, he wouldn't even be afraid to answer a friend's phone now.

"By the way, have you called Lin Yinan? Do you want to talk to him?" Yang Li suggested.

Xuan Yuan pursed his lips and put down the water glass in his hand, "No, let him go if he wants to go..."

Doing this made Xuan Yuan feel like he was forcing Lin Yinan.

"Is it possible to let him go and make trouble again? I'm helping you." After speaking, Yang Li decisively picked up Xuanyuan's cell phone and started dialing Lin Yinan's number.

"Hey..." He stretched out his hand hesitantly, Xuanyuan still acquiesced in the end.

Although what happened last time was not Lin Yinan's fault at all, Xuanyuan still agreed with Yang Li's approach.

A few seconds after clicking to dial, the call was connected, and Lin Yinan's gentle voice rang out from the other end.

"Ah Yuan, you called me." Lin Yinan said happily, his words were full of joy.

Xuanyuan, with a guilty conscience for no reason, took the phone handed over by Yang Li, and hesitantly said under her gaze, "Yinan...do you know about the class reunion this afternoon?"

"I know." Lin Yinan happily chose clothes while answering the phone, "Fang Le called me this morning."

Fang Le used to be the monitor of their class, and he has been doing the notification, and this time is no exception.

"Otherwise, don't go to this party..."

The smile on his face completely dissipated because of this sentence, put down the shirt in his hand, Lin Yinan picked up the phone and turned off the speakerphone, "...why?"

He asked in a trembling voice, "What are you worried about? Are you afraid that I will embarrass you..."

The last gathering was very awkward at the beginning, but didn't everyone express their understanding afterwards?Why do you still care so much? Are you really unable to let go, or are you simply trying to escape.

People say the seven-year itch, but they have only been three years, and the itch has already penetrated into their bones.

Lin Yinan's blunt words made Xuan Yuan unable to speak, and the embarrassment of being exposed all of a sudden made him feel guilty.

Seeing that Xuan Yuan remained silent, Yang Li snatched the phone anxiously, "Lin Yinan, as a friend, let me give you some advice. You should not go to the class reunion in the afternoon, so as not to make things difficult for Ah Yuan."

"..." Yang Li...

Lin Yinan's silence made Xuanyuan flustered, he glared at Yang Li, and explained anxiously, "Yinan, don't listen to her nonsense, I just want to go alone this time, there is no other meaning."

"...Understood, I won't go this time, don't worry." Looking blankly at the white shirt, Lin Yinan hung up the phone resolutely.

Looking at the phone that was hung up, the joy in Xuan Yuan's heart quickly faded away, followed by deep guilt, fear, and distress.

"Okay, the matter is settled, there is still time to go now, let's go in my car."

After dressing herself up, Yang Li took Xuan Yuan to the nearest restaurant, which was the place for the party.

After driving to the entrance of the hotel, through the huge square mirror at the entrance, Xuanyuan and the others walked up the stairs to the second floor.

I haven't seen you for a year, and everyone's faces are filled with joy. Regarding the fact that Lin Yinan didn't come, no one thought to mention it. After eating exquisite meals and drinking the expensive wine at hand, everyone's faces gradually became pale. Blush.

Rubbing the rim of the cold glass with his fingertips, and swallowing the spicy wine in his throat, Xuan Yuan's head has already started to get dizzy.

Raising his right wrist, squinting at the fixed hour hand on his wrist, Xuanyuan noticed that it was already 03:30.

It turned out that before they knew it, the time had passed from twelve o'clock noon to three o'clock in the afternoon, and they actually drank for three and a half hours.

Immediately after, a urge to urinate followed, looking at the staggering people in the box, Xuan Yuan stood up unsteadily, bypassing Fang Le who was in front of him who wanted to continue drinking, walked out of the box directly, and came to the empty corridor.

After leaving the box full of alcohol, Xuan Yuan's mind became a little clearer.

When he came to the bathroom, he unscrewed the water valve, splashed the ice-cold water on his face fiercely, and after going back and forth several times, Xuan Yuan really woke up.

After shaking the water off his face, he opened the door of the toilet cubicle, loosened his belt, and the strong urge to urinate gradually dissipated.

Heaving a sigh of relief, Xuan Yuan, who was sitting on the toilet and relaxing, scanned the surroundings boredly, and accidentally found that the person on the other side of the baffle was actually wearing the same leather shoes as himself.

"Tsk, what a miscellaneous product." He muttered dissatisfied.

After the urge to urinate was gone, Xuan Yuan stood up, lifted his trousers and fastened his waistband.

Because the newly bought leather shoes didn't fit well, and the toe was even tighter, his big toe was painful, so Xuanyuan could only raise his toe, let his heel rest on the clean floor, and licked hard twice.

Four crisp "knock knock" sounds suddenly sounded in the silent bathroom.

Um?Xuan Yuan couldn't help but look down at his toes, didn't he just take two bites?Why is there an echo?

Puzzled, he quickly turned his gaze to the vacant space under the right fender. From that small space, Xuanyuan could see the same pair of brand-name shoes.

Slightly bent down to look, the owner of that pair of shoes seemed to be also worried about the tightness of the shoes, his toes stood up straight, and the heel kept the same arc as Xuan Yuan.

The unnatural standing posture made Xuan Yuan shake his head helplessly and smiled.

"Ha, miscellaneous brands are harmful."

After finishing speaking, Xuan Yuan put down the toilet lid, stretched out his finger and lightly placed it on the silver button, the strange thing is that he didn't press the button immediately this time, instead he quietly turned his head and glanced at the hole exposed under the baffle. feet.

The toes of those feet were now facing the toilet, and it seemed that the person maintained the same standing posture and had no intention of pressing the button.

The curious Xuanyuan waited patiently for a few minutes. During these few minutes, his eyes kept going back and forth between the toilet button and those feet.

'Cut, you won't be learning from me. Xuan Yuan, who curled his lips, moved his feet a little irritably, maintaining the same standing posture, his feet were a little numb.

This time, Xuan Yuan thought that the person next door would continue to stay still, but saw the movement of those feet from start to finish, this time the arc and direction were exactly the same as his.

'No, it's so weird...'

Xuan Yuan swallowed quietly, 'Damn it, let's go. '

With this in mind, he pressed the button without hesitation this time, and the intense flushing sound of 'shua la la' played the same melody, pressing the same rest.

Listening to the sound of water that stopped abruptly at the same time as if copying and pasting on both sides, Xuan Yuan began to feel scared in his heart.

"What the hell...is this all consistent..." Xuan Yuan stood stiffly in the cubicle, looking at the door lock in anticipation and fear.

Quietly raised his right hand to rest on the door lock, Xuan Yuan's eyes were fixed on the feet under the fender, he slowly turned the metal door lock in his hand, and pushed hard to the left.

Sure enough, the moment the door was finally pushed open, two identical 'clicks' sounded at the same time.

The author has something to say:

This article is a short horror novel, so the number of chapters will not be many, and this article will be saved in the abyss after it is finished (because this article has been delayed for a long time, I will write it first).

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Thank you Joan for the landmines you received in advance, thank you O(∩_∩)O